October 11, 2004 - 9:53 am
What a weekend.
Friday, after work, Tammy and I spent a great evening with Galyn and Kristin Black playing board games and eating some warm-from-the-oven cookies. Regrettably, we were having such a good time, we completely missed the presidential debate.
On Saturday, we did a little shopping in celebration of a surprise windfall. (I got my first profit sharing check from GIS2 last week. Let’s just say the economy around here is better than Mr. Kerry wants you to think.)
Later we picked up Sarah, one of our many “kids”. She is in our youth drama group and it was her 17th birthday. We went to Six Flags and enjoyed four hours of riding rollercoasters in the rain. It was a complete blast and ruined my singing voice for Sunday morning.
Sunday, we put on our first adult drama sketch (not skit, long story) for the church in both services. It was a real tear jerker about divorce and had just that effect in both services. (It seems weird to gage the success of your script by how many people you make cry.) The youth drama group, The Bottom Line, also performed two sketches in high school Sunday school, both comedies. Because God is so awesome and omnipotent, I was able to attend all four performances, even when a couple of them should have been performed simultaneously.
Right after church, we had a two hour session with the Master’s Players, a 5th, 6th, and 7th grade group that Tammy co-leads. They do sign-language, dance and mime to music. This workshop was a first in that we had one adult, and several high schoolers involved in miming the story of one of the songs (“If We Are the Body”, by Casting Crowns).
Then, an hour after that, we had the final audition for the church Christmas play. (Actually, the “play” is a set of scenes that appear between songs in the musical that the choir is doing. If you’ve gone to church much in your life, you know what I’m talking about.) I’m not the director of the play, but I am a co-director of the burgeoning adult drama group, so I had to be involved in the auditions. I’ve also been tasked with rewriting the script, since most dramas that come with published church musicals tend to be… well… not very interesting.
The auditions wrapped up just in time for evening church. Glenview only does evening services once a month and they usually involve communion and baptisms. Another of our “kids”, Shereen, was baptized. It was very emotional.
Tammy and I made it back home, Burger King in hand, at 8:15. We were both completely exhausted. Nothing like a good restful weekend to get you charged up for another week at the grind.